[Healeys] Misleading Barrett Jackson promo material on BJ8

[F Ronald Rader]

let me make my point because i don't seem to -

these buyers are not buying it to show.
they are not buying it because it has pozi screws and not Phillips.
they are buying it because the fit and finish are exceptional, they
can take it to their Ferrari club event, or Jag club event, and have
people drooling over it.

they buy them because they believe they are new re issues old great
old cars and will be reliable and safe.
they show up on the Copperstate rally or the CA Mille or the Colorado
Grand (BN2).

only a couple of hundred of us care if the hose clamp is corect.

you will not find these guys at the local Healey events competing.
ron

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Jody Kerr <jodyfkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> I think that people are losing the gist of the original email. It's
> not really the car or the restoration that's being calledinto question
> as much as the advertising for said car. I've seen Tanner restorations
> and they are gorgeous, but they aren't accurate. And the issue is that
> they are being advertised as such.
>
> Now I've done many non-original things over the years. From basic
> upgrades, to working with the parts that are available to major "hot
> rod" modifications. (my favorite was a Chevy LS motor in a 944, man
> that was a sweet drive). And I don't care what anyone else does to
> their car in terms of modifications, unless they advertise it as
> original.
>
> You'd think I was nuts if I put a Porsche 944 on the block with a
> Chevy Ls1 motor in it an called it original, as would most of the
> motoring world. But, when someone advertises a car as concours
> certified and it's not the same colour as it was when it left the
> factory, then there is something to question.
>
> So, it's not the car, but how it's advertised. And the issue with
> Barrett-Jackson is that british cars are such a small segment of what
> they do that the company, vendors and consumers may not always know
> what they are getting (short of it being beautiful).But, if they
> advertise it as one thing, and it's really another, then that's fraud.
> And that's the probem. Advertise a Tanner car as being from him and
> being great, but don't advertise it as concours when it's not.
>
> Now my AH will be concours because I want it to be and I've never had
> a gold certified car before. I don't want someone's work to be paraded
> above mine because some false advertising dictated so.
>
> Cheers!
> Jody
>
>
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